Johnsons JAHRESTAGE - Der Kommentar

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	17. Februar 1968

735, 1	Sonnabend Tag der South Ferry - s.K. 90, 25.
735, 1-788, 20	17. Februar, 1968 ... zu? / Noch nicht - Zur erzählerischen Besonderheit der Tage vom 17. bis zum 27. Februar vgl. Fries (1990a), S. 63-66: »Gesines Erinnerungsfähigkeit [gerät] an eine Grenze, als sie mit ihrer Vergangenheitserzählung (gemeint ist die mündliche, die sie Marie erzählt) zeitlich beim Tod ihrer Mutter angelangt ist. Sie ist außerstande, zusammenhängend davon zu berichten, und flüchtet sich in ein Fieber. Nicht Marie, sehr wohl aber der Leser erhält eine Darstellung der Vorgänge im Zusammenhang mit Lisbeths Tod.« Wie sonst auch erzählt der Genosse Schriftsteller, resp. der Erzähler, weiter, »allerdings in einer Art und Weise, die dem Umstand Rechnung trägt, daß Gesines Alltagsroutine gestört ist«; ebd., S. 63f.
735, 2- 736, 32	»FLÜCHTLINGE FINDEN KEINE ... es wird aufhören!‹« - »Refugees Find Hue Provides No Haven By THOMAS A. JOHNSON Special to the New York Times HUE, South Vietnam, Feb. 16 - When the Vietcong’s Lunar New Year offensive started here 17 days ago thousands of South Vietnamese refugees fled to Hue university on the south side of the Huong River for safety. Today, there are more than 16,000 people cramped in the three main university buildings, about half of this city’s new refugee population, and safety is nowhere in sight. Several refugees have been killed and many wounded during artillery, rocket, and mortar duels between the enemy forces, along the southern end of the city’s historic Citadel, and American forces directly across the river. ›Several South Vietnamese leaving the university have been shot by snipers just a few blocks away,‹ one American doctor said. A Vietcong sniper, posing as a refugee, and firing at American soldiers from a university window was shot to death yesterday by South Vietnamese policemen, also posing as refugees. And this morning, tear-gas fumes dropped on North Vietnamese and Vietcong positions in the Citadel, drifted across the river to choke and irritate the refugees huddled in family groups in scores of university rooms. The duels across the river continued sporadically all day. Several started when enemy gunners fired on naval landing craft ferrying supplies along the river to United States marines fighting in the Citadel. At other times, it was American artillery, jet fighter-bombers, or the 5-inch Naval shells from a ship offshore that caused enemy forces to retaliate at the only target within their reach. After most of the duels, refugees can be seen carrying a wounded friend or relative to an aid station. One man rushed to a concrete wall on the university grounds to watch a duel about 2 P.M. today. As soon as he crouched there, an enemy mortar exploded about 20 yards away and the man fell to the ground, blood running down the side of his face. He got up and ran quickly to a university building, almost knocking down a woman who carried a limp and bleeding child. [...] The health, sanitation and food situations have changed for the better during recent days. American and South Vietnamese medical teams have inoculated 12,000 people against typhoid and cholera and have set up a permanent station to continue the inoculation. At least two cases of cholera have been reported here. Work crews have cleaned up the hospital and have dug up latrines on the university ground. Tons of rice, vegetables and frozen sides of porks are distributed from each of the buildings. But this improved situation has its own problems, an angry American civilian official pointed out. ›They’re selling the rice,‹ Dr. Herbert A. Froewys [sic], the deputy chief medical officer for the pacification program here, complained yesterday. ›The rice was sent to feed these people - they’re selling it.‹ The doctor hurrying through the compound, refused to tell just who was selling the rice. But he shouted: ›It’s going to stop! Believe me, it’s going to stop!‹« NYT 17.2.1968; Hue: s.K. 30, 30; Viet Cong: s.K. 30, 27.
736, 33	© by the ... York Times Company - s.K. 116, 25.
736, 34- 737, 26	»BERICHTE VON DREI ... drei tot waren.« - »3 Dead Enemy Soldiers Reported Chained to Gun - Allied Officers in Hue Assert the Bodies Were Discovered When School Was Taken HUE, South Vietnam, Feb. 16 (Reuters) - Allied officers said today that three North Vietnamese soldiers had been found here, chained to a machine gun and left to die defending their position. The three men were shackled around the ankles to the stock of a Chinesemade light machine gun. They held their position with other enemy troops for two days in a school until they were overrun yesterday by the South Vietnamese Fifth Marine Battalion. The allied officers said the chained men were all privates. The men were barefoot and their bodies riddled with bullet holes. ›They were little men, same size as me,‹ a South Vietnamese marine only 5 feet tall said. Maj. Paul Carlsen of San Clemente, Calif., an adviser with the South Vietnamese marines, said the chain binding the men to their gun was like a heavy dog chain and had links about half-an-inch wide. The Machine gun, which has a circular magazine and is commonly used by both North Vietnamese and Vietcong troops, can be operated by one man. It was apparently intended that after the first man was killed the two others would operate the gun until all three were dead.«, NYT 17.2.1968.
737, 28- 738, 6	»DEUTSCHER DICHTER PREIST ... ganzen Welt aufzuzwingen.« - »GERMAN POET HAILS ›JOY‹ OF LIFE IN CUBA - MIDDLETOWN, Conn., Feb. 16 (AP) The German poet, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, has left a fellowship at Wesleyan University with a blast at United States foreign policy and praise for Cuba, where he said he wants to live. Mr. Enzensberger took off from New York City today for California and a trip around the world, according to a friend on the Wesleyan campus. The 38-year-old poet told a university audience this week that a three-week visit to Cuba had convinced him the Cuban people have ›a sense of joy, meaningful [sic] and significance. He viewed United States foreign policy as an attempt to impose the will of the United States on smaller countries throughout the world«, NYT 17.2.1968. Johnson hat diesen Artikel mit der Maschine abgeschrieben und aufbewahrt, er hatte den Fehler in Enzensbergers Aussage (das Adjektiv »meaningful« statt des Substantivs »meaning«) angestrichen und mit »checked« vermerkt, um ihn dann wörtlich und grammatisch unsinnig zu übersetzen; Arendt (2004), S. 57; AP: s.K. 101, 28.
737, 30	Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Geb. 11.11.1929, dt. Schriftsteller, Rundfunkredakteur, Lektor, Übersetzer, 1965-75 Hg. der Zeitschrift »Kursbuch«, 1980-82 der Zeitschrift »Transatlantik«. Provozierte mit seinen Gedichten die restaurative Gesellschaft der Adenauerzeit. Der radikale Protest gegen die bürgerliche Gesellschaft wandelte sich später zu Desillusionierung und Skepsis gegenüber den Ideologien. Daß sein Engagement gegen den amerik. Vietnamkrieg nach Johnsons Meinung nur verbal blieb, trennte ihn Mitte der sechziger Jahre von seinem einstigen Weggefährten. Zudem beeinträchtigten die Auseinandersetzungen um die Kommune I in Johnsons Berliner Wohnung das Klima. Schon im Juni 1967 hatte sich Johnson in seinem Essay »Über eine Haltung des Protestierens« (Kursbuch 9) von einem seiner Meinung nach scheinradikalen, unverbindlichen Engagement distanziert und gefordert, wer protestiere, müsse mit seiner gesamten Lebensweise für seine Überzeugung einstehen; s.K. 15, 13-17; 594, 6f.; 737, 28-738, 6; 769, 12-14; 794, 36.
737, 31	Universität Wesleyan - 1831 von der Methodist Episcopal Church gegr., inzwischen unabhängiges Liberal Arts College in Middletown, Conn. Unterhält seit 1958 ein Center for Advanced Studies. John Wesley (17.6.1703-2.3.1791), begründete eine Erweckungsbewegung innerhalb der Anglikanischen Kirche, aus der die Methodisten hervorgingen.